Piquadro ecommerce store released

I'm very proud to announce that our first ecommerce initiative has been succesfully released and deployed. 
Studioarch.com, a Piquadro boutique in Rome, Italy, is the heir of the long Studioarch tradition, a historical sales point in the sector of graphics, fine arts and designer objects, founded in Rome back in 1968.
Piquadro is a  specialist producer of travel and business luggage, the company has always been characterised by a blend of traditional Italian craftsmanship, quality, design, innovation and technology.
For the backend we've used the open source platform Magento (after spent 2 weeks on evaluating different paltforms) and we're very happy about our decision.

This is a list of Pros and Cons of Magento we found:

Pro:
Free and opensource platform
Feature-rich solution
Based on Zend Framework
Good SEO
Good support for localization
Fast-growing community
Easy update
Easily manageable extensions
and much more...

Cons:
Not much documentation (there is a growing wiki and a nice forum, but it is still difficult to find the answer you are looking for)
Importing products not yet fully supported (import script needs some tricks and workarounds to be used)
European tax system not fully supported (VAT, B2B, B2C..., check first if what you need is supported)
Internationalization may not be complete (depending on your language)
Still many bugs (but development and bug fixing is on the go, the last release is from 1.1.8 November 26, 2008)
and maybe some more...

You can read the full article published on Comtaste's blog to learn some tips on Magento.

And if you need to buy some italian fashioned computer bags, organizers and notepad holders, backpacks you can now buy Piquadro online on our site. I garantuee ;)